This film was created based on the book written by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee. It was directed by Stanley Kramer. It is based on a real-life case in 1925, two great lawyers argue the case for and against a science teacher accused of the crime of teaching evolution. I watched this film in high school after I read the book. I found it very interesting and I remember watching it and the effect it had on me. Bertram Cates was behind bars, awaiting trial for teaching his students about Darwin's theory of evolution. Matthew Harrison Brady, who leads the prosecution, arrived to a warm welcome ...

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Summary The movie opens when police officers arrested Bertrum T. Cates for teaching evolution in his biology class. They called this the beginning of the "Monkey Trial". Rachel Brown, the Reverend's daughter, came to see Cates while he was in custody. They had been seeing each other. While she was there, a reporter named Mr. Hornbeck came and told Cates that the Baltimore Herald was on his side. Meanwhile, the townspeople were protesting against Darwin's Theory. During the protests, Mathew Harrison Brady came and spoke against Cates. Rachel said that he was not a heathen. Also, the lawyer Henr...

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... , "Why not make it 4000 dollars- (Inherit the Wind). On the final day of the trial the defense calls the prosecuting attorney to the stand as an expert on religious matters. As the examination unfolds we see a climatic shift in the court room audience as Mr. Brady defends the literal truth of the bible against what he calls "Cates agnosticism- (Inherit the Wind).. Drummond goes on to expose the blatant contradictions of this idea when Mr ... . Brady permits interpretation of the bible. In the end the court finds the ... ...

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